{"id":70023,"date":"2024-03-11T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-moves-before-election-to-implement-citizenship-law-opposed-by-muslims\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:40:06","slug":"india-moves-before-election-to-implement-citizenship-law-opposed-by-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-moves-before-election-to-implement-citizenship-law-opposed-by-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"India moves before election to implement citizenship law opposed by Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>India announced rules on Monday to implement a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1521496\/indias-citizenship-bill-has-only-one-aim-protect-non-muslims-harass-muslims\">2019 citizenship law<\/a> that critics call anti-Muslim, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before December 31, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s government had not crafted implementation rules for the law after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1521685\">protests and sectarian violence<\/a> broke out in New Delhi and elsewhere within weeks of the law\u2019s December 2019 enactment. Scores were killed and hundreds injured during days of clashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Modi government announces implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act,\u201d a spokesperson for the prime minister\u2019s office said in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an integral part of BJP\u2019s 2019 manifesto. This will pave [the] way for the persecuted to find citizenship in India,\u201d he said, referring to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s (BJP) 2019 election manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>A Home Ministry spokesperson said the rules will enable those eligible under CAA-2019 to apply for the grant of Indian citizenship, and that applications would be submitted online via a web portal that had been provided.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1522069\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Muslim groups say the law, combined with a proposed national register of citizens, can discriminate against India\u2019s 200 million Muslims \u2014 the world\u2019s third-largest Muslim population. They fear the government might remove the citizenship of Muslims without documents in some border states.<\/p>\n<p>The government denies it is anti-Muslim and says the law is needed to help minorities facing persecution in Muslim-majority nations.<\/p>\n<p>It says the law is meant to grant citizenship, not take it away from anyone, and has called the earlier protests politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Modi swept to power in 2014 and has consolidated his hold since with a focus on growth, welfare economics, boosting infrastructure and aggressive Hindu nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion polls suggest he will comfortably win a majority in a general election that must be held by May.<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition Congress party said Monday\u2019s announcement was motivated by the approaching election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter seeking nine extensions for the notification of the rules, the timing right before the elections is evidently designed to polarise the elections, especially in West Bengal and Assam,\u201d Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh said on X.<\/p>\n<p>The eastern states of West Bengal and Assam are home to large Muslim populations and witnessed protests against CAA as some Muslims feared the law could be used to declare them illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh and take away their Indian citizenship.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India announced rules on Monday to implement a 2019 citizenship law that critics call anti-Muslim, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/11192825b7b8874.jpg?r=192846","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}